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I have always received great advice from this forum, so here I go again! We are hoping to catch a mama and her two kittens over the next couple of nights. This will be my first time catching kittens straight from the outside. I was able to get some Frontline Plus on mama a couple of weeks...

I have a feral cat that we brought into our house in early September when she surprised us by having a litter of kittens on our deck. We kept everyone safe and healthy and finally got mama and the 5 kittens speutered and vaccinated last week. Kittens will be adopted out, but mama will go back...

I swear, every time I think I’m getting into the groove of caring for ferals/TNR I get a new challenge. We had one female feral that we had been unable to trap and I knew she was pregnant but didn’t think she was super close to her due date. Last Tuesday morning I went out to feed the other...

We have entered the world of TNR—we have in the past fostered and adopted out a litter of ferals that someone else trapped, and trapped another litter on our own, tried to adopt them out but ended up keeping them. But this is our first time trapping, neutering and releasing. We are definitely...

When I had our "feral four" spayed/neutered last week, I requested dewormer. They sent me home with four doses of Pyrantel--it was a yellowish liquid dosed out based on each cats weight. I strongly suspect at least one of the kittens has a tapeworm -- there is often a segment of something...

I am brand new to the world of TNR or TN-and-attempt-to-socialize. So, I have a ton of questions...but one pressing one at the moment. I had a litter of 4 feral kittens (well, probably more like tweens as they are likely closer to 6-7 months old) that had taken up residence around my backyard...

We have a litter of kittens w/their mama that have been visiting our deck and staying for several days at a time each week. Then they'll move on to some other place -- we don't know where else they go, but within several days they are usually back. Sometimes mama leaves 2 of her 4 kittens here...

Holy heck, in my house of very picky and frustrating eaters (seriously, trying to find healthy foods that all of my crew will eat has reduced me to tears more than once...) this stuff is crack. They literally line up at the bowls when they see the bag. All 5 of them! The vet prescribed it for...

My 1 year old male cat has a nasty case of blackheads. He's had them off and on for months -- usually if I kept up with washing his chin several times a week with a mild cleanser and swiped them with a Stridex pad once or twice a week, they'd be under control. But recently they have gotten...

We have 5 foster cats who got spayed/neutered yesterday. When they came home, two of the started displaying behavior that was brand new -- they are aggressively playing in the water bowls. I'm used to kitties who may dip their paws in the bowl, even swirl a bit, but these two sweet girls are...

We have a few stray/feral cats who come visit our house on a regular basis. We started to put some food and water out, and then in the fall we made a couple of those home made cat boxes—plastic bin lined with insulation, within another plastic bin, full of straw, etc. none Of the cats like my...

My efforts to ‘train’ our four 6 month old kittens to stay off of the Kitchen counters has been failing. And i could use some help! I tried out putting strips of tape on placemats and leaving the placemats up all over the counters. I didn’t have much success bc frankly my counters including...

I posted a little about this last month in the pregnant cats/kitten forum. The problem continues and has gotten a little worse, so I wanted to put the question here. We adopted a litter of 4 kittens from the shelter 5 weeks ago. They are around 16-17 weeks currently. There are 3 boys...

We adopted 4 kittens from the shelter 10 days ago. Three boys -- Hamilton, Harrison and Mango; and one girl, Molly. I really want to get these guys on good feeding/nutrition habits early. I made the mistake of letting my two older cats eat a fairly poor quality dry food for most of their...

While we got fairly proficient at giving our 15 year old cats pills (one would eat them when in a pill pocket, one we used a pill popper), we have never given kittens pills and need to know the 'best' technique. We just got 4 kittens from the shelter yesterday, and unfortunately this morning...

...and my head is spinning trying to figure out what food to feed. I haven’t had kittens in 16 years, and I’ll admit that at that time I was in my early 20’s and poor and ignorant and I just fed dry food. In my cats later years I learned how important wet food is, but by that point they were...